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Mahingan and his small family are wintering north of the Ottawa River near present-day Lachute

Yeoman weaves together ideas

Cynthia Bird

Red Rooms Odawa org/uploads/7/9/8/7/79871818/teacher_resource_guide_grade_5Naomi, an Indigenous chambermaid in a busy downtown hotel, amuses herself by imagining the past, present and future lives of five hotel guests, whom she observed in passing, in the hotel lobby and through relics left in their rooms. Struck by their remains, their footprints and their clues, Naomi patches them together to weave tales of infatuation, love, infidelity, illness, death and family. In Red Rooms, Naomi tells the tales of the young prostitute